Indigo software automation

Indigo 6 v6. The last version of macOS that this release supported was macOS Indigo 5 v5. Indigo 4 v4. Indigo 3 v3. Indigo 1 v1. Toggle navigation. Industry leading advanced features. Features The Indigo Smart Home Software platform has the broadest feature set of any do-it-yourself solution in its class.

Devices are the cornerstone of Indigo. In Indigo they are used to represent and control your smart devices: switches , lamps , appliances , thermostats , sprinklers , alarms, weather stations , etc. They are also used to provide integration with other services, such as iTunes , NOAA weather servers , and more. Triggers Events. Events in Indigo are generally referred to as Triggers.

Triggers allow you to define which events Indigo will detect and what actions to perform — for instance, when a button is pressed, a temperature goes below a threshold, energy usage goes over a threshold, or the garage door is opened. Schedules are special time-based events. You define a schedule by specifying time and date components. Schedules have powerful and flexible options including randomization. For example, you can easily create a single schedule that executes 10 minutes after sunset on Saturday and Sunday, only in June, July, and August.

Actions and Action Groups. Actions are operations that Indigo can perform like turning on a light , sending an email , adjusting the setpoint on a thermostat , or pausing iTunes. Action Groups are a simple way to create a collection of actions to be used in multiple triggers and schedules.

Control Pages. Control Pages are the primary way you interactively control Indigo. While triggers and schedules execute automatically by Indigo, you can use control pages via Indigo Touch clients to manually control your smart home. Our graphical designer allows you to create very complex and beautiful pages. Variables allow you to store bits of information that can be used throughout your Indigo logic.

Unlike other automation platforms where variables are an afterthought or their values aren't saved permanently, variables in Indigo are given first-class status and their values are always saved and easily accessible.

Indigo Touch for iOS. Indigo Touch for iOS allows you to interactively control and monitor your smart home through easy-to-use touch-friendly controls. Close the garage if it was left open. Turn up the heat in the cabin while on the way. Indigo's graphical control pages are displayed beautifully and are touch gesture compatible. Indigo Touch for the Web. This includes the ability to remotely control smart devices and use custom graphical pages designed using the Indigo graphical editor.

Secure Internet Access. See the FAQ for answers to the most common questions about using Indigo. Find answers and step-by-step tutorials in our How-To Wiki. If you have a contribution to the wiki, send us an email with a brief description of your contribution. Have a question about how to use or configure Indigo?

Which hardware to buy? We have one of the most active and helpful user communities in the smart home market. Read and post to our online user forums to quickly find the answers you need to get your smart home started. Indigo software downloads, for both the most recent and legacy versions, can be found on our download page.

Visit our library of user contributions to search for and download Python scripts, AppleScripts deprecated in Indigo 7. These are contributions from our very active user community and so they represent a wide range of solutions.

Indigo 7 requires Mac OS X Indigo also provides easy-to-create graphical Control Pages. Yes, Indigo includes a Indigo Touch for the Web that will allow you to fully control your Indigo system. Indigo also provides easy-to-create graphical control pages.

Our Indigo Touch development efforts are currently focused on the iOS platform and on the Web app for other platforms. There is, however, a 3rd party Android client available. Most modern Macs use very little power when idle and with only the Indigo Server running the Mac will be idle most of the time. The default installation of the Indigo Server requires that the admin OS X user account under which it was installed be logged in and running.

Note, however, that this is an unsupported configuration. As detailed on the online forum , it is possible to run the Indigo Server before any OS X user account is logged in.

There are limitations, however, to launching Indigo Server in this fashion. For example, Z-Wave and plugin support will be disabled. Note also that this is an unsupported configuration.

A better and supported option is to setup a separate user account that runs Indigo. Then, with fast user switching, you can switch between individual user accounts while keeping the Indigo-specific account and Indigo Server running in the background.